Mark Cross
CEO OpenID.co.uk, looking Managing Director from Marketing Background and Financial Director. (Age don't ask - going balder by the month)
| Headline: | Club Leader |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Website: | http://www.OpenID.co.uk |
| Skills: | Business, Event planning, Management, Public speaking, Sales |
| Location: | Totnes, Devon, UK |
| Interested in: | Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding engineers, Finding team mates, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping members of my groups, Meeting new people, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Receiving feedback, Recruiting for my startup, Sharing my projects, Starting a company |
| Tags: | 2d, 2d barcodes, adfs, android, Cryptography, data matrix, entropay, femtocell, limo, micropayments, open handset alliance, openid, pre-pay, s60, ubuntu mobile |
| Schools: | King's College |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | InternetExpert.co.uk |
| Position: | CEO |
| Time period: | June 2008 - Present |
| Description: | Internet Consultancy; complex hosting requirements, domain registration, DNS, Email backup, software as service advice, VOIP and CRM deployment |
| Employer: | Aspidistra Software Ltd |
| Position: | Marketing Manager |
| Time period: | January 2004 - June 2008 |
| Description: | Employed with Aspidistra as Marketing Manager with the following duties:
• Business Partner Channel Management • Lead generation for sales, organising mail shots • Fielding pre-sales calls Currently responsible for executing strategic marketing for "Shopfront", a whole e-commerce solution for the Sage Accountancy platform, which allows complete web design freedom for the client, with the ability to provide real-time stock management for B2C and B2B transactions. The solution was the Sage Innovations Award runner up at Sage Visions 2007. Prior to this role I was also the full time Technical Sales Person, part time windows system administrator and set up the SVN source code control system on Debian Linux. I still continue to maintain the SVN server in my present role. The company also provides a SCORM and AICC compliant Learning Management system to Virgin Media for all their staff training needs, this support up 5000 users annually. My best roles would be: • Technical Pre-sales • Client management in the right situation, phone or face-to-face • Product management in the right situation I think my best qualities lie in the following areas: • "Obscure" people networking • “Joining the up the dots” and coming up with novel ideas: one in 20 is a gem. • Event organization, exhibitions, etc. • Gateway person between technical, management and technical PR • Presentations - happy to do them • Research for briefings |
| Employer: | Saltstone Media Ltd |
| Position: | Account Manager, joint founder |
| Time period: | January 2000 - December 2004 |
| Description: | At the time a highly sucessful provincial web design agency, in it's third year went from 30 to 130 clients. On leaving the company the residual income was £8,000 pcm.
While at Saltstone Media I personally registered over 12,000 domains names for a single client and in one year was the 43rd largest registrar of .uk domain names in the UK. |
| Employer: | UKdirectory PLC |
| Position: | Senior Executive/CTO |
| Time period: | January 1997 - December 2001 |
| Description: | I brought the first printed directory of UK web sites to the magazine stands, wrote a Microsoft Visual Basic v3 application to output Quark DTP files from the UKdirectory database, it calculated the space required for advertising - enabling the magazine to be produced from the database to film for press in 3 days.
Commercially I got the magazine into UK news wholesale distribution through John Menzies Wholesale, WHS wholesale initially didn't want to take the title - because they didn't think there would be enough demand for it. They did later... |
| Employer: | Grey Matter |
| Position: | Pre and post sales technical support, product management |
| Time period: | January 1993 - July 2000 |
| Description: | Specialising in software development tools - PC compilers and third party libraries.
Helped to spot new software products emerging in the US, before the Internet and get them into the product catalogue. |
EDUCATION
| University: | King's College |
| Time period: | 1987 |
INFORMATION
| Hobbies: | Walking
Squash Music DIY |
Mark's Startups (1)
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OpenID Ltd
OpenID Ltd is the Trademark holder to the OpenID text Mark and device logo for the UK. The company is a blank canvas. Please don't hesitate to call me Cheers Mark +44 750 258 456
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Mark's Contacts (4)
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Cornelius Smith
Long-term resident of Japan, drawn here to study Art History. Japan Specialist, fully fluent in both written and spoken Japanese language. Love mobile tech and exploring social media. Recent adult beginner of violin, and aspiring capoeira player
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Paul Lomax
General manager, technologist, and former entrepreneur
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Danny Mac
MD of rivmixx.com, Music Network and Magazine.